So a henge over a shadow clone and he could be somewhere else while he was here. Back in the Hokage's Tower, altering records.
If it was found, fine. Plan B would have the teams remain the same, which would give Sakura's position on Team 7 a chance to be on hand.
Plan A was rearranging the teams so that Team 8 would be composed of Shino Aburame, Naruto Uzumaki, and Hinata Hyuga.
Shikamaru knew a few things, revealed much later during one of Tsunade's examinations of Naruto after a big fight, and had everyone involved wishing it could have been noticed a lot earlier. Including Naruto. No, make that ESPECIALLY Naruto.
A little known diagnosis of something from one of the tech-kingdoms, the one that provided goods like the radio headsets, had been talked about by a visiting physician. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Something that could occur with people whose chakra levels were too high and their bodies not up to handling those amounts. People suffering from it had memory lapses, difficulty concentrating or staying still, tended to be loud and annoying.
When a curative treatment had been applied to Naruto to see what that did, the change in his personality had been startling. Just the increase in his memory and the way he seemed much more observant had been worth it.
The problem was that the treatment required someone medical trained, and it required daily work for several months to do it. Sakura was a medic-nin, so was Hinata to some extent though she'd never trained to that extent with Tsunade. One of the two HAD to be on Naruto's team to address that issue.
Shikamaru worked quickly and then left just as quickly. Plan A or Plan B, either was good. Plan A was simply Plan A because if Hinata spent a lot of time with Naruto, all three of them agreed it was a good thing.
There. Now to get away and establish an alibi or two.
"Yes, Demon Fox, destroy Konoha!" said Mizuki as Iruka tried to stand.
"YOU'RE WRONG!"
"Eh?" asked Mizuki, Iruka, and Naruto.
"I've watched Naruto for years," said Hinata, stepping out into the forested area where the three had been dialoguing. "He's never cruel. He's never mean. He has a kind heart that never gives up!"
"You've been 'watching me'?" asked Naruto, his hands still ready to make the cross handsign and invoke his shadow clones.
"You've been my inspiration," said Hinata. "When my life was at its darkest and it seemed there was no way out, Naruto, your smile was the light that kept me going."
"Eh?" repeated Naruto.
"Well, I can get some serious money for this scroll, and if I take your eyes, I can get even more," said Mizuki. "I might even make jonin if I take both to one of the other villages."
"That's not going to happen," said Naruto before anything else happened. "Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Sakura was preparing. If Shikamaru was successful Team 7 would be composed of herself, Kiba Inuzuka, and Sasuke Uchiha. If he was not, and Sakura suspected that someone would find the changes before they were announced, she would be there with Naruto and Sasuke for Team 7. The Bell Test would be in two days, followed by several D-Rank Missions, followed by the Wave Country mission, followed by the chuunin exam.
One thing had led to another which led to another. If they changed one thing, everything afterwards might change.
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